Henry Baker <hbaker@netcom.com> wrote:
] My personal feeling is that I agree (in this instance) with David Chase
] 100%, and would go so far as to say that far from allowing _speedups_, the
] current ambiguity in the language standards actually _guarantees_ slowdowns in
] programs which aspire to any amount of portability. The problem is that if you
] were truly paranoid, you would have to start locking and unlocking serially
] accessed data structures on the different arguments to a multi-argument
] procedure.